Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s $3,500 Suit Fits a Longstanding Socialist Tradition
We must remember the Ms. Ocasio-Cortez grew up in hedge fund country, Westchester County New York, not The Bronx as she said. But that aside.
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‘Impossible to Fire’ State Dept. Bureaucrat Admits Working for Socialist Group on Gov’t Time
It might be “government time” but it’s the taxpayer’s dime. One has to dynamite government employees out of positions, and even then it’s almost impossible. Your “public servants” on display. And it looks like Senator McCarthy was right after all.
Emmanuel Macron calls Brexit campaign leaders ‘liars,’ in extraordinary attack
Europe continues to try to bully Britain. The German empire by bureaucrat is threatened deeply by Brexit and as such the French and the Germans have done everything they can to make things as difficult as possible in the wake...
Central Planning Failed in the USSR, but Central Banks Have Revived It
Crony capitalism flourishes in big government.
California farm workers voted out their union by a 5-1 margin in 2013, but state regulators withheld those results until a federal court ordered them released
We covered this story when it happened a half decade ago. The pro-labor politicians didn’t want the vote to be recognized and they certainly didn’t want it known how soundly the union was rejected by workers.
$32,500 for CBD Oil?
Herbal remedies, and in some cases really herbal remedies can and often do work. However such simple God given remedies challenge the crony Pharma pill culture that the FDA works to protect.
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US Ready to Resume North Korea Talks, Seeks Denuclearization by 2021
(From Reuters) The United States said it was ready to resume talks with North Korea after Pyongyang pledged on Wednesday to dismantle its key missile facilities and suggested it would close its main Yongbyon nuclear complex if Washington took unspecified...
US Catholic Bishops Announce New Rules for Sexual Abuse Accusations
(From The Hill) The steps the [US] bishops say they will take in response to a recent Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing hundreds of instances of sexual abuse at the hands of priests over decades in the state include developing...
US Jobless Claims Fall as Labor Market Holds Firm Despite Trade Tensions
(From CNBC) The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell last week, a sign the labor market was holding firm despite tensions between the United States and its trading partners that have spawned restrictions on global commerce. Initial claims...
GOP Warns Time Running Out for Kavanaugh’s Accuser to Talk
(From AP News) Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, wrote Ford’s attorneys Wednesday that the panel was giving the California psychology professor until 10 a.m. Friday to submit a biography and prepared statement “if she intends to testify” Monday. . . ....
FBI, DOJ Expected to Make Redactions Despite Trump’s Order to Declassify Russia Documents: Report
(From The Washington Examiner) The FBI and Department of Justice are expected to redact some information in the materials President Trump has ordered declassified regarding the Russia investigation, according to a report Wednesday. . . . Three people familiar with...
The Amazon Is Flooding Five Times More Often Than It Used To
(From UPI) Scientists in England, Chile and Brazil analyzed [Amazon] river level records dating back more than a century. The data showed extreme floods — when water levels rise at least 95 feet, triggering an emergency declaration in the city...
Former Malaysian PM Charged with Money Laundering, Abuse of Power
(From Reuters) Malaysian prosecutors charged former Prime Minister Najib Razak with 21 counts of money laundering and four counts of abuse of power on Thursday over hundreds of millions of dollars received in his personal bank account. The charges bring...
Pelosi Bid to Regain House Speaker Role Facing New Threat from Rebel Democrats
(From Fox News) A rebel group of Democrats in the U.S. House is pushing a petition to change party rules for electing their speaker — in what is viewed as a bid to stop current House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi...
China Temporarily Spares US Oil Imports from Tariffs
(From UPI) U.S. crude oil exports have been temporarily spared from Chinese tariffs, giving state-run oil refineries a short window to import as much as possible. They’re scrambling for U.S. [oil] imports because WTI, the U.S. benchmark, is selling at...
Lawmaker: US Senate, Staff Targeted by State-Backed Hackers
(From AP News) Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said in a Wednesday letter to Senate leaders that his office discovered that “at least one major technology company” has warned an unspecified number of senators and aides that their personal...
US Appeals to Allies Ahead of UN Meetings to Put Pressure on Iran
(From The Washington Free Beacon) The Trump administration’s new adviser on Iran pressed European allies Wednesday to join the United States in adopting a hardline stance against Tehran, making the appeal ahead of next week’s United Nations General Assembly in...
VOTER SUPPRESSION! Why college students don’t vote absentee? They don’t know where to buy a postage stamp
Perhaps this is some form of voter suppression. Not everyone knows how to buy a stamp. Why should someone who doesn’t know how to buy a stamp be denied the right to vote? This is clearly discriminatory. I mean,...
Democrat Pols Panic? Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Adam Schiff and Mark Warner want to keep Carter Page docs secret, Insist DOJ defy President
The classification of information is an interesting tool of the political class. There are certainly instances where information should be classified, and say kept off of one’s private server in ones bathroom. But, ahem, the classification process is often used to...
Eric Holder: Declassifying FISA documents is ‘an especially dangerous abuse of power’
We have to wonder why Holder is so concerned?
Newspaper Publishers Association honors Maxine Waters with ‘leadership’ award
And people wonder why much of this country has just written off the old media, the legacy media, as cripplingly biased. Maxine Waters is a crony capitalist of the first order (as we’ve documented) and didn’t know the difference between...
